US DOE selects two carbon capture projects to receive additional funding

The selected projects are supported through funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001725, Technology Development to Ensure Environmentally Sustainable CO₂ Injection Operations. This FOA focuses on developing modelling and monitoring methods, technologies, and tools that help assess the position of CO₂ plume over time within various geologic formations and sedimentary environments.

The DOE’s Carbon Storage Program advances the development and validation of technologies that enable safe, cost-effective, and permanent geologic storage of CO₂. The projects will support the program by increasing understanding of subsurface behaviour and by enabling scientists to more precisely assess CO₂ plumes to verify their conformity, stability, and containment. The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the projects, which are described below.

• Integration of Seismic-Pressure-Petrophysics Inversion of Continuous Active-Source Seismic Monitoring Data for Monitoring and Quantifying CO₂ Plume—The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) will develop algorithms to process data obtained through continuous active-source seismic monitoring to provide an accurate map of a CO₂ plume over time. The project will culminate with a laboratory test of the algorithms in a controlled subsurface experiment. DOE Funding: US$2 016 033; Non-DOE Funding: US$514 415; Total Value: US$2 530 448.
• Joint Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic Data—The University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND) will develop and apply two modelling and monitoring tools to address shortcomings of existing plume-mapping techniques. Successful application of the tools will help extract more information from existing data; improve methods for detecting, assessing, and forecasting changes in CO2 saturation over time; inform cost-effective operational and monitoring decisions; and improve the ability to delineate the extent and location of CO₂ in the subsurface. DOE Funding: US$1 831 910; Non-DOE Funding: US$557 550; Total Value: US$2 389 460.

The Office of Fossil Energy funds R&D projects to reduce the risk and cost of advanced fossil energy technologies and further the sustainable use of the Nation’s fossil resources.

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